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NextPlease - Today's Browser Tip
by Jordan Running Dec 6th 2005 at 11:55PM
NextPlease is one of the cooler Firefox extensions I've come across in awhile. The concept is pretty simple: NextPlease adds keyboard shortcuts and toolbar buttons for "Next" and "Prev" links on web sites. Out of the box NextPlease is super-smart: on most of the sites I tested it with, including several forums, Google search results, IMDb pages, Digg, and Download Squad itself, it worked flawlessly. On the rare site that it can't figure out, such as del.icio.us with its "earlier" and "later" links, it's just a matter of right-clicking on the appropriate links and telling it to recognize those phrases or images as next/prev links. NextPlease is very configurable and allows you to pick almost any keyboard shortcut for each of its functions and easily manage the phrases and images that it recognizes. For those who use their keyboard more than their mouse, I highly recommend NextPlease.
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Kiran said 1:12AM on 12-07-2005
If you liked this extension, you should also take a look at SwiftTabs. The version for FFX 1.5 is at http://heygom.com/extensions/ .
I am not sure if you have used Opera before. It has an amazing feature which I grew very accustomed to. You could use the numbers "1" and "2" for cycling through the tabs. "1" goes left and "2" goes right. With this you can configure it the same way. And it stops working if it is in any text input field. Way more easier than Ctrl-TAB etc.
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Ricky said 1:29AM on 12-07-2005
#1: Firefox has functionality for switching directly to the required tab, just use CTRL + 1, 2, 3...n. No need to cycle through tabs using CTRL + TAB.
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